Mary Sojourner
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The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest. Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-living, blue-collar women who fight quietly and fiercely to make their way in the world, find love and beauty, and hold on to their hopes. The heroines, most of them over forty, include single moms, aging...
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NPR commentator Mary Sojourner, "a pithy yet sensuous, spiritual yet ferocious writer" (Booklist), delivers a powerful memoir about the joys of rejecting the pace, addictions, and false values of society...and learning to live without compromise.Twenty years ago, Mary Sojourner was a mental health consultant and counselor in Rochester, New York, a divorced mother of three, longing for her real work, her real home. She found it in Flagstaff, Arizona,...
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A woman's right to sovereignty over her destiny and possessions, the difficulty of finding a compatible mate, wife-battering, the ravages of senility and Arizona's pristine beauty are among the topics in this lengthy, disjointed narrative which nevertheless contains some sensuous imagery and well-crafted prose. Liz Morrigan marries twice, has three children, and barely survives an unsuccessful love affair. With only memories and two cats for company,...